The prestigious Toast of Surrey Business Awards , run in association with the Surrey Advertiser , Surrey Mirror and Get Surrey returns on June 27, bringing together the region’s best businesses and entrepreneurs.

The UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity, Lord’s Taverners, is committed to supporting local business and has come on board as the awards’ official charity partner.

Money raised at the event will go to the organisation to support its many initiatives that give young people who are disabled or disadvantaged a sporting chance.

Paul Robin is the Lord’s Taverners’ CEO and he discussed why it had decided to become the official charity partner.

Paul Robin is the Lord’s Taverners’ CEO (Image: Richard Bailey)

Mr Robin said: “The Toast of Surrey Business Awards provide a great platform to enable us to communicate the work we do for disadvantaged and disabled young people to a wider commercial and corporate audience, many of whom, professionally or personally, may have first-hand experience of the sort of young people we are looking to support.

“One of the main benefits these awards bring to our organisation is communicating our message and potentially financial partners for our programmes.”

It isn’t just the large, established businesses that are in with a chance of winning one of the 14 categories at this year’s awards. There are 14 on offer, open to companies of all sizes and from a range of sectors.

As well as acting as official charity partner, Lord’s Taverners has also partnered with the Not-For-Profit Organisation Award.

Paul emphasised the benefits the Toast of Surrey Business Awards bring to the region.

Toast of Surrey Business Awards 2018 (Image: Toast of Surrey 2018)

“These awards provide the opportunity to bring recognition and raise the profile of some of the region’s best businesses. They also offer a chance for some of the leading businesses in the area to network, share ideas and thoughts, and build a coherent community centred around Surrey.”

“The business comm-unity, like all communities, is stronger when working together.

“Recognising and celebrating success and learning from those examples brings improvement across the community, which can only be to everyone’s mutual benefit.”

This year’s Toast of Surrey Business Awards presentation evening takes place at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge and will be hosted by TV comedian Mark Dolan and former British Olympian Gail Emms, who will ensure proceedings will run smoothly.